Russia seeks to preserve cities and human lives while carrying out the special military operation in Ukraine, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, explaining the difference between the special operation and war.

“Of course, it is very difficult to compare military potentials of Russia and Ukraine. And you may ask, why do the Russians act so slowly? Because the Russians are not waging war.

We are not waging a war. It is a totally different thing to wage a war: it is total destruction of infrastructure, it is total destruction of cities. We are not doing that. We seek to preserve the infrastructure, we seek to preserve human lives”, - said Peskov.